DragonFly BSD 1.6.0 has been released, and it includes a whole load of bigfixes and improvements. 1.6.0 Is the fourth bug-fix sub-release in the 1.6 release branch major DragonFly release. "DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems."

They must've corrected it by now: 1.6 is our fourth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches.

On another note: that's one massive releaselist! A big list of new features and improvements.

What pains me is that I consider DragonflyBSD the OS that has the most exciting developments going on, but: it's not usable for desktop use by a longshot (not too sure it's ready for server-use either). There's no DE yet, although recently I read of an XFCE beta, and there's little 'big' software running on it from what I can tell, since porting to DfBSD is less straightforward than normal, especially in the absence of the major widget-platforms.

Of course, for such needs there are alternative platforms, but with DragonflyBSD I at least get the feeling it's going places.

no DE, no widget-platforms ? There are KDE, Gnome,...Qt, Gtk... in fact the same software as NetBSD (through pkgsrc).
Of course it may not be fully "desktop ready" compared to Linux for example. Dragonfly has a lot of rough edges, evidently. But it is quite usable (if you are not a beginner in the *nix world of course).